Top Blogging Tips for Beginners: Inbox Advice | August 21-27

Take a listen to the Fizzle team when you get a chance (Fizzle podcast).

Seasoned pros in the blogo & business sphere, their podcasts provide actionable advice for newbies.

For bloggers like yourself (and me), when setting up a niche or authority website, avoid this mistake:

“Choosing a business idea where you don’t understand the target customer enough…

If you don’t understand your customers deeply, if you don’t know them well, how will you solve a problem for them? How will you find them?

Understanding your customers is how you make your business idea stand out. It’s how you choose a business idea that people actually want, because you understand the customer intimately. Ideally you want to be able to explain your customers’ problem better than they can express it themselves.

You might be thinking, wait a second, that’s impossible. How would I know my customers’ problem better than they do? But this actually happens all the time, because customers are busy. They’ve got a lot going on in their lives and they have this thing that’s annoying them, but maybe they haven’t really sat down and spent months thinking about this thing. It’s just something that comes up and nags them every once in a while.

So you, as the business owner, if you get to understand that person and a bunch of other people like her, who have that problem, then you have this advantage of being able to synthesize all of that information and articulate it back to them in a way they never thought about before. Then they’re like holy crap this business really gets me.”

Take Away:

Actionable advice for niche website creators. Research what you want to write about, get to know who you are writing and creating for, and give them actionable advice… or in the case of an affiliate marketer – help them make a buying decision.

Give them enough info that meets their needs that they won’t go anywhere else before making a purchase.

He’s the guy behind the Skyscraper Technique, so I’m going to borrow his explanation:

Credit Neil Patel

This is something every beginner can understand. It’s also something that works for bloggers in every industry.

The first step is the most important. This is when you scour the internet, making note of the best content in your space. As noted above, you can use BuzzSumo to speed up the process.

From there, you have one goal and one goal only: to improve upon the best content. This can mean many things, but in an overall sense, you should be focused on quality above all else.

When you create the best content, it’s only natural to be rewarded in several ways:

Higher search engine rankings.

Better engagement with your audience.

The chance to prove yourself as a thought leader.

Once your content is published, you have one last task: reach out to influencers who can amplify your content by sharing it with their audience.

Instead of using a scattergun approach, hoping to pick up some interest along the way, Dean shares the following advice:

Instead of emailing random people, you’re reaching out to site owners that have already linked out to similar content.

By doing this, you know that the person has an interest in what you’re sharing. And, since your content is now the best of the best, there’s a good chance that the person will want to share it with their audience. Easy enough, right?

If you master the Skyscraper Technique early in your blogging career, it’s something that will pay off for many years to come. Even if you fail, in regards to reaching out to the right people, you still end up with quality content that has a good chance of performing well in the search engines.”

So now that we’ve cleared the air about blogging being easy, you have to wonder if it’s worth all the effort. If it’s so hard then why do people do it?

For the same reason you do other things in life: you love it, you want to try something new, or you want to earn money. If you’re reading this email then I suspect you are interested in making money.

Let me tell you yes, YOU CAN MAKE A FULL-TIME INCOME BLOGGING.

But how can you do it?

You work for it.

Of course, that work is made easier when you have a solid foundation of proven strategies and tactics to use to grow your income.”

Take Away:

Apply the tactics above – do the work.

Success comes to those who work for it the most.

You should now have a few tactics to grow your blog and your online business using the advice from bloggers in my inbox.

I’ve applied a few of the techniques myself and have seen my income grow.

There’s still a ton of work to do, mostly because I’m trying everything and not focusing.

But, that’s another story!

I’m like most new bloggers who spend the first few years on everything, afraid not to try it all.

And, while I do make a few hundred dollars a month from my Amazon niche site, and have now made money with my first affiliate sale on Bluehost (finally), and have learned how to start advertising Ringpartner campaigns on Google Adwords from Raj @ Pay Per Call Exposed, and made some money on Kindle, and Adwords, I still need to focus more.

If you are struggling to find your way and make money blogging, start following the bloggers above. They have some of the best affiliate marketing tips for dummies – like me 😉

You will learn enough to start making an income if you focus on one thing – creating stellar content.

Start writing Skyscraper blog posts.

Get them to rank in Google with SEO techniques, and add affiliate links to your post.

When I did that with my affiliate niche site, I started to make over $100 per month.

It’s not a tooooon of money; it’s just enough to keep me hooked and looking for a way to make more.

Disclaimer: There are a couple of affiliate links in this article. If you sign up using my affiliate link I will make a small commission at no cost to you.

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